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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
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Fall 2014
Capital markets play an important role in the modern economy. This thesis consists of two essays on capital markets. In the first essay (Chapter 1), I study the effect of systematic news on a prominent capital markets anomaly, post-earnings announcement drift (PEAD), and use the effect to...
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Spring 2022
Consumer wastefulness continues to be one of the most pressing issues in achieving sustainable development. While research on wasteful consumer behavior garners increasing attention, most of it is significantly limited by how we conceptualize waste, and consequently how we identify and reduce...
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Fall 2018
This thesis investigates the important statistical tool of Esscher transform with its applications in mathematical finance for various environments. This transformation was introduced by F. Esscher and it became very popular afterwards, in both actuarial sciences and finance due to its role in...
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Fall 2016
Inequality, collective action, and adapting climatic variability are all central adaptive problems that shaped the evolution of our species’ sociality. Equally so, because of the internal logical structure of these challenges, each of these problems also sits at the heart of climate change....
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Spring 2016
People buy extended service contracts (ESCs) or extended warranties for their purchased products to protect them against break-down or failure beyond the duration or coverage of base manufacturer warranties. In this thesis, I study two factors that affect ESC purchase decisions, namely brand...
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Spring 2016
This dissertation consists of three separate essays on health care operations management. Abstracts of the three essays are as follows: Essay 1: We model emergency medical services (EMS) as Erlang loss systems and study ambulance shortage periods, intervals with few or no ambulances available to...